The organs that are involved in thoracic surgery are the esophagus, lungs and the heart.
Some examples of thoracic surgery are lung transplant or removal of parts of the lung that are affected by cancer, heart transplants, and coronary artery bypass surgery.
Thoracic surgery is high risk although it's also a very safe procedure for most people.
There are some risks associated with thoracic surgery which include possible bleeding, air leakage from your lungs and pain abnormal heartbeats and infection.
The reason thoracic surgery is painful is because of the damage to the intercostal nerves and muscles between the ribs.
The post-thoracotomy pain lingers two months or more after the incision has healed and it can affect up to 50 percent of people who receive a chest incision.
The mortality rate of thoracic surgery is between 0.6% and 1.3%
The two major postoperative complications of thoracic surgery are pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis which are potentially fatal complications that can occur after thoracic surgery.
The most common type of thoracic surgery is coronary artery bypass grafting.
The major thoracic surgeries are lobectomy and coronary artery bypass grafting also called CABG.
The lobectomy is the removal of part of your lung.
The four major thoracic organs are the lungs, heart, esophagus and trachea.
The other major thoracic organ is the thymus.
Thoracic doctors treat conditions such as Emphysema, Gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD, Chest reconstruction, Benign (non cancerous) lung tumors and lung diseases, heart transplants and heart lesions which includes valve disorders and coronary artery disease.
A person may need thoracic surgery for a variety of reasons such as for injuries or accidents that damage the chest area.
Some people have a growth or disease such as cancer and other people are born with conditions that require surgery to improve how their body works or quality of life.
The difference between a thoracotomy and a thoracoscopy is that a thoracotomy is an open chest procedure to gain access into the pleural space of the chest.
The thoracotomy is done to gain access to the thoracic organs and most commonly the heart, esophagus and lungs or to gain access to the thoracic aorta or the anterior spine.
A thoracoscopy on the other hand is a medical procedure that involves internal examination, biopsy and/or resection/drainage of disease or masses within the pleural cavity, usually with video assistance.
Thoracoscopy may be performed either under general anesthesia or under sedation with local anesthetic.
A thoracoscopy is not all that risky and is a very safe procedure.
However there are some risks that come with a thoracoscopy which include pneumonia and bleeding.
The disadvantages of thoracoscopy are the loss of tactile sensation and the cost of procedural equipment.
Other disadvantages of thoracoscopy include absolute contraindications that include a fused lung, markedly unstable patient, cardiac arrest or shock and a person who is unable to tolerate complete or partial unilateral collapse of your lung.
A thoracoscopy is not a major surgery and instead the thoracoscopy is a minor and minimally invasive surgery.
The thoracotomy surgery takes around 45 minutes to complete from start to finish.
After a thoracoscopy you will stay in the hospital for 1 to 4 days.
If you have any chest tubes then you may need to stay in the hospital until the chest tubes are removed.
And after the thoracoscopy a nurse or a therapist will help you get up and walk soon after the thoracoscopy which will keep your blood moving and will help improve the healing.
It takes between 1 week to 2 weeks to recover from a thoracoscopy and the doctor will take the stitches or staples out within 1 to 2 weeks after the thoracoscopy.
You will need to take it easy for 1 to 2 weeks as you recover from the thoracoscopy.
A thoracoscopy is not a major surgery and instead a thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive surgery which uses smaller cuts than traditional open surgery.
The survival rate of a thoracoscopy is 97 percent and the mortality rate for a thoracoscopy is 0.3 percent.
You would need a thoracoscopy to look at an abnormal area seen on an imaging test (such as a chest x-ray or CT scan).
You may also need a thoracoscopy to take biopsy samples of lymph nodes, abnormal lung tissue, the chest wall or the lining of your lung.
A thoracoscopy is most commonly used in people with lung cancer and mesothelioma.
A thoracoscopy is not painful at all because you'll be given anesthesia before the thoracoscopy procedure.
However after the thoracoscopy you may feel some pain at the incisions which you can take some pain medicine for.
The position that a patient is in for a thoracoscopy is in the lateral decubitus position with the involved side facing up.
The length of time it takes to do a thoracoscopy is around 45 minutes and involves making a hole in the chest wall and then inserting a telescope into the hole.
The doctor will also inject a local anesthetic into the area where they will make the hole and will use an instrument called an introducer to insert the thoracoscopy telescope into the hole.
The Thoracoscopy is done in order to look at an abnormal area seen on an imaging test (such as a chest x-ray or CT scan).
A Thoracoscopy also can be used to take biopsy samples of lymph nodes, abnormal lung tissue, the chest wall, or the lining of the lung (pleura).
It is commonly used for people with mesothelioma and lung cancer.
A Thoracoscopy is a medical procedure involving internal examination, biopsy and/or resection/drainage of disease or masses within the pleural cavity, usually with video assistance.
The Thoracoscopy may be performed either under general anaesthesia or under sedation with local anaesthetic.
Thoracoscopy is a medical procedure a doctor uses in order to look at the space inside the chest (outside of the lungs).
This is done with a thoracoscope, a thin, flexible tube with a light and a small video camera on the end.
The tube is put in through a small cut made near the lower end of the shoulder blade between the ribs.
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive surgical technique used to diagnose and treat problems in your chest.
During a VATS procedure, a tiny camera (thoracoscope) and surgical instruments are inserted into your chest through one or more small incisions in your chest wall.
You can start doing normal activities again within two weeks of your thoracoscopy.
Full recovery usually takes four to six weeks.
Thoracoscopy is indicated in people with undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions despite thoracentesis with or without pleural biopsy (up to 25% of effusions).
Thoracoscopy, preferably video assisted, is traditionally performed by surgeons with the patient under general anesthesia.
Thoracoscopy risks include: Bleeding.
Pneumonia (infection in the lung) Needing to have a thoracotomy, where the chest cavity is opened with a larger cut, because the procedure could not be done with the smaller cut used by thoracoscopy.
Because of the breathing tube, you may be hoarse or have a sore throat the day after your thoracoscopy procedure.
Also, you may have some pain where your provider made incisions.
You can expect to have a tube in your chest for a day or two after your thoracoscopy if your provider took biopsies or drained fluid.